One of the closest foreign policy advisers in the White House said Wednesday that President Barack Obama will not take executive action to ease the embargo on Cuba. He noted that any change of policy towards the island depends on the Castro regime showing “significant changes”.
Read MoreThe period starts off with cooler temperatures due to the passage of a cold front from the northwest with rain until Saturday. Afterwards there will be sunny days until Tuesday when rains will return and the temperature drop a few degrees.
Read More“Where are the cows?” This is the question the herders, authorities and police of Villa Clara are asking following a cattle recount conducted at agricultural and livestock cooperatives and State farms that came 6,934 animals short.
Read MoreA Cuban doctor who battled Ebola in Sierra Leone was infected with the disease and will be transferred to Geneva, authorities of the island reported on Tuesday.
Read MoreNine Cuban journalists and scholars plan to visit California State University, Fullerton, for 10 days starting on Dec. 3.
The visitors plan to get a first-hand look at digital journalism. They’ll talk to American journalists and professors. They’ll examine the rise of social media in journalism. Some will even do some reporting, a Cal-State source says.
The number of Cuban rafters has increased substantially over the past four years. According to the US Coast Guard, the figure of Cubans detained tripled, from 422 in 2010, to 1,357 in 2013. During the 2014 fiscal year, a total of 2,059 Cubans trying to reach the United States on rafts were intercepted in the high seas.
Read MoreLast Monday, Rafael Botalín, 15, left Cuba for medical treatment abroad. He is the Santiago boy who urgently needs surgery for an arteriovenous vascular malformation in the brain. A few weeks ago we wrote about his situation.
Read MoreA pitching gem by right-hander Norge Luis Ruiz (1-0) during 8 innings and a final scone from Hector Mendoza, allowed Cuba to open with a 4-0 win over Puerto Rico at Beto Avila stadium in Veracruz on Saturday at the start of the baseball tournament at the Central American and Caribbean Games.
Read MoreJailed in Cuba with a 15-year sentence for his illegal activities as a six-figure contractor for a US-AID project, Alan Gross has lost in another attempt to get the US government to take responsibility for his clandestine actions.
Read MoreA new Cuban initiative to obtain dollars mainly from Miami is up and running: Dining in Havana with dollars from family or friends from abroad.
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